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Archive for category Threat Watch
Whole Disk Encryption At Risk
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 22/Jan/2013 08:15
Pakistani Senteced on Terrorism Charges
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 21/Jan/2013 02:40
From the FBI:
A Pakistani native who operated a Chicago-based immigration business was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist plot in Denmark and providing material support to Lashkar e Tayyiba, a terrorist organization operating in Pakistan that was responsible for the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. The defendant, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, was convicted of the charges on June 9, 2011, following a three-week trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
Police Have No Duty To Protect You
Posted by Brian in Law, Threat Watch on 18/Jan/2013 08:09
The courts have stated on several occasions that the police do not have duty to protect you. The result of those cases is the fact that each individual is responsible for his/her life and no one else. The most famous case is Warren v District of Columbia.
Gun Owners of America discusses the case here.
Here is a more in-depth article on Warren and other cases including a deeper discussion of self defense.
Here is a Cato Institute Policy Report on self defense.
Al Qaida Takes BP Facility in Algeria, Takes American Hostages
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 16/Jan/2013 15:06
From the Washington Post:
Algerian forces have surrounded the complex and the state news agency reported a bit more than 20 people were being held, including Americans, Britons, Norwegians, French and Japanese, citing the local authorities.
Steganography
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 16/Jan/2013 08:44
Article from SOFREP about how terrorist organizations are hiding and transmitting information:
In the digital world the most common form of steganography is embedding information in media files. Media files are rather large, so a little data padding isn’t as noticeable. They are also created with layers of information, which allows the embedding of other data into a layer, and keeps it obscured behind preceding layers – kind of like slipping a tiny, extra piece of cheese into a dagwood sandwich.
Emotional Liberals Pass Gun Legislation in New York
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 15/Jan/2013 17:22
The state of New York doesn’t deserve to have the Statue of Liberty. They no longer know what the word liberty means. I have suggested to a few friends, that we need to find a liberty loving billionaire, and just take the statue from them.
From the Washington Times:
Current owners of a now-certified “high capacity ammunition feeding device†— over 7 rounds — will have one year to sell or give them away out of state or face a class A misdemeanor charge. Dealers will have to start recording every ammunition sale with the buyer’s name, age, occupation and residence.
Gun retailers will have to record for the state police every sale that involves a firearm. The seller will have to record the buyer’s name,  age,  occupation and home address, along with the calibre, make, model, manufacturer’s name and serial number.
Texas Proposal: JAIL Any Federal Officials Trying to Enforce New Gun Restrictions in the State
Posted by Gary in Law, News, Threat Watch on 15/Jan/2013 14:16
From: WOAI
A Texas lawmaker says he plans to file the Firearms Protection Act, which would make any federal laws that may be passed by Congress or imposed by Presidential order which would ban or restrict ownership of semi-automatic firearms or limit the size of gun magazines illegal in the state, 1200 WOAI news reports./blockquote>
We Are The First-Responders, We Are The Guardians
Posted by Gary in Law, News, Threat Watch on 15/Jan/2013 09:37
Two conclusions from the 9-11 Commission Report that always stand out in my mind are;
- From now on, the first-responders are going to be ordinary citizens.
- Many of the failures leading up to 9-11 were the result of a lack of imagination.
Below is an essay from a School Superintendent in rural Texas who has taken those lessons to heart. The result is something he calls the “Guardian Plan”.
From: David Thweatt, Special to CNN
Good parents protect their children. We protect them from the wind, sun, fire, cold, sickness, from animals, harmful philosophy, other children, predatory adults, injury when possible, their own faulty reasoning and anything else that we see as a dangerous risk to their health and well-being. They are the future, and they are precious.
At the Harrold Independent School District in Texas, we believe we’ve done everything possible to protect our children. We use cameras, electronic security and emergency plans, and some of our staff members are armed.
How’s That “Change” Working Out For You?
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 14/Jan/2013 12:53
15 yr Old Shoots Burglar with AR-15
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 13/Jan/2013 15:54
What is going to happen when these rifles are banned and these incidents continue to happen?
Burying Benghazi
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 11/Jan/2013 16:16
From: Fred Thompson
So now, apparently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is going to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya and the ensuing scandal.
Although, the murdered ambassador was working for her and she was in charge of the department responsible for the clearly inadequate protection of the diplomatic facility, she had essentially nothing to say about the matter even before her health difficulties. This follows the Obama Administration’s well-worn game plan and the failed practices of the past: the FBI cites “criminal investigations†to keep from having to discuss this terrorist attack … even with the CIA. Aided and abetted by the media, the White House ignores the matter, and even if it were forced to focus on it, would decline comment, citing the FBI’s criminal investigation. There have been no public hearings or testimony from Departments of Defense, State or the White House national security witnesses, even though it seems apparent that most of the information needed by Congress and the American people is not or should not be classified. Read the rest of this entry »
Albanian Citizen Senteced on Terrorism Charges
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 9/Jan/2013 18:30
From FBI:
Earlier today, at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, New York, Agron Hasbajrami, an Albanian citizen and Brooklyn resident, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to terrorists. Hasbajrami will be removed from the United States at the conclusion of his sentence.
Former FBI Agent Kidnapped
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 9/Jan/2013 16:19
From The Telegraph:
An expert on Russian organised crime, Mr Levinson, who would now be 64, retired from the FBI in 1998 and became a private investigator. He was investigating cigarette smuggling in early 2007, and his family has said that took him to the Iranian island of Kish, where he was last seen.